NAME

Test::Detect - Detect if the code is running under tests

VERSION

This document describes Test::Detect version 0.1

SYNOPSIS

    use Test::Detect;

    if ( detect_testing() ) {
        # do test specific stuff
        $keg->TAP; # i.e. output TAP safe data
    }
    else {
        # do non-test specific stuff
        $keg->pour; # i.e. output non-TAP data
    }

DESCRIPTION

Heuristically detect if the code is running under tests or not.

Handy, for example, when you may need to enable TAP format safe output.

INTERFACE

import() exports detect_testing().

detect_testing()

Takes no arguments.

Returns true if you are running under tests, false otherwise.

DIAGNOSTICS

Test::Detect throws no warnings or errors of its own.

CONFIGURATION AND ENVIRONMENT

Test::Detect requires no configuration files or environment variables.

DEPENDENCIES

None.

INCOMPATIBILITIES

None reported.

BUGS AND LIMITATIONS

No bugs have been reported.

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-test-detect@rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org.

AUTHOR

Daniel Muey <http://drmuey.com/cpan_contact.pl>

LICENCE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2013, Daniel Muey <http://drmuey.com/cpan_contact.pl>. All rights reserved.

This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See perlartistic.

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